Re: [Condor-users] Job dependency spec for condor_submit?

[Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 05:16:31PM -0500, Ian Chesal wrote:
> You could possibly do this with an external-to-Condor process though.
> 
> If you were to submit all jobs held (hold=True in your submit ticket) and
> you were to put a custom attribute in your submit ticket that is a
> comma-separated list of <clusterid>.<jobid> (or whatever you like) jobs to
> make the parent of your submitted job, you could write an external process
> that scans your scheduler queue and releases held jobs when all the jobs in
> it's parent job list are done (either leave the queue or are in the C state
> in the queue).
> 
> Not easy, but not impossible.

I see. Thanks for the pointers. I wonder if somebody already implemented
such daemon -- it sounds like a useful compat-layer, even though it is
suboptimal in comparison to a proper a priori DAG spec.

I will talk to the authors and see which direction they might be
interested in.

Thanks,

Michael

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